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Efficient computation of soliton gas primitive potentials

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2025-10-01 v1 Numerical Analysis Mathematical Physics math.MP Numerical Analysis Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We consider the problem of computing a class of soliton gas primitive potentials for the Korteweg--de Vries equation that arise from the accumulation of solitons on an infinite interval in the physical domain, extending to -\infty. This accumulation results in an associated Riemann--Hilbert problem on a number of disjoint intervals. In the case where the jump matrices have specific square-root behavior, we describe an efficient and accurate numerical method to solve this Riemann--Hilbert problem and extract the potential. The keys to the method are, first, the deformation of the Riemann--Hilbert problem, making numerical use of the so-called gg-function, and, second, the incorporation of endpoint singularities into the chosen basis to discretize and solve the associated singular integral equation.

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@article{arxiv.2505.02029,
  title  = {Efficient computation of soliton gas primitive potentials},
  author = {Cade Ballew and Deniz Bilman and Thomas Trogdon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.02029},
  year   = {2025}
}
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